CONTENT: pt. I. Origin stories : history and development of the genre. Of gutters and guttersnipes : Hogarth's legacy /Joyce Goggin --Ridiculous rebellion : George L. Carlson and the recovery of Jingle Jangle Comics /Daniel F. Yezbick --Suspended in mid-month : serialized storyt…
This work explores how the aesthetics of the illustrated Victorian novel have evolved from caricatures to realism across the long nineteenth century.
Introduction: the arc of the Victorian illustrated book -- The Pickwick Papers and the rise of the serial -- Caricature: a theatrical development -- Realism, Victorian material culture, and the enduring caricature tradition -- Caricature and realism: fin-de-siecle developments o…
In the current era where lifelong learning takes the fore, higher education can no longer be regarded as an isolated trajectory within one's educational career and many students face substantial challenges in crafting their professional future. More specifically, the transition …
"Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from and complementary to literature and film. In Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of …
This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts presented here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Ga…
"Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain (the media, publishing houses, bookstores, museums, and archives) have increasingly promoted the …
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations,…
"The Graphic Novel offers an examination and analysis of the contemporary graphic novel as literature. Specific attention will be paid to the use of narrative genre in the graphic novel (e.g. the superhero graphic novel, the crime narrative graphic novel, the horror graphic nove…
"The Graphic Novel offers an examination and analysis of the contemporary graphic novel as literature. Specific attention will be paid to the use of narrative genre in the graphic novel (e.g. the superhero graphic novel, the crime narrative graphic novel, the horror graphic nove…
"Writers and artists in the highly competitive U.S. comics mainstream have always had to explore these questions but they were especially pressing in the 1980s. As comics readers grew older they started calling for more sophisticated stories. They were also no longer just follow…